Cromwell and Centaur.....CROMWELL FINISHED....

At last I found some time to post some in progress pics...still some way to go but I hope to say the worst is over now....For who is not familiar...the Cromwell and Centaur were 2 WW2 British tanks...identical hull but different turrets. Cromwell had a 75mm while the Centaur had a 95mm howitzer...The cromwell turret was far more complicated in terms of detail...mostly due to the fact that i wanted to detail some items I thought were oversimplified OOTB. The British antenna is a Lionmarc offering I was introduced to by Alex (aka Sandro ). The coaxial is armorscale Besa (again Alex). 75mm is also armorscale. 95mm metal barrels are not availabkle in turned metal but I figure the plastic one is not too bad...The plastic stwoage boxes are OK, but I wanted to feature some battle damage and one of them opened with stuff inside, think adds character to the tank. Boxes are ABER...Comments/criticism as always welcome....

Dottore

Items I didnt like....

Plastic storage box....

Cromwell turret....

Centaur....

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the correct colour is s.c.c. no2 (brown) BASIC more commonly known as khaki drab while the cromwell COULD be in s.c.c. no15 OLIVE DRAB BASIC (A GREENER OLIVE DRAB THAN AMERICAN VERSION) OR THE EARLIER BUT NOT SO COMMON KHAKI GREEN G3 BASICHOPE THIS HELPS

Dottore wrote:OD was NOT a green hue Its a mixture of BLACK and OCHRE...so more on the lines of brown....

Dottore

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BLACK IS A SHADE, THE CLOSEST YOU CAN GET TO MAKING BLACK IS A VERY DARK BLUE COLOUR ADD OCHRE TO THIS AND INVARIABLE YOU END UP WITH A GREEN OR BROWN GREEN HUE SO YES IT IS GREEN, ON THE BROWN SIDE BUT STILL GREEN

Dottore wrote:Alex...But if u read S. Zaloga's article on OD in MM of a few years back it clearly says that OD is a mixture of black and OD...and that it was brown rather than green...

Anyway tell me something I need....is the British antenna too high up...should it be down to the arms?

Dottore

the antenna looks ok but have to check BLACK AS A COLOUR DOES NOT EXIST ITA A SHADEYOU CAN ONLY GET BLACK IN THE COMPLETE ABSENCE OF LIGHTwhat i tried to explain is that black paint is s very very dark blue or brown colour with the addition of ochre invariably you end up with a green or browngreen hue

there are only 3 primary colours blue red and yellow, no black no white now what has olive drab to do with this you might ask. basically its a shade of green with a brown hue i agree, but its not brown

That if I go into a paint shop...and ask for black wall paint...he'll tell me...BLACK DOES NOT EXIST...ITS A SHADE>>>>but i can give you very dark blue....!!!I know in principle its a shade but the colour does exist in practice. So what is soot? very dark blue?

Dottore wrote:That if I go into a paint shop...and ask for black wall paint...he'll tell me...BLACK DOES NOT EXIST...ITS A SHADE>>>>but i can give you very dark blue....!!!I know in principle its a shade but the colour does exist in practice. So what is soot? very dark blue?

Don't intend to start a debate...so i'll stop here....

Dottore

so will i after thisas for going to a paint shop, try asking him for rlm 7010 and he will certainly look bemused.my point which you seem not to have understood isto get a "black" colour you need a dark blue. now what do you get if you mix any sort of blue with any sort of yellow. a penny to whoever gets this right

looking at the photo i would if i where you try to straighten the supporting struts on the antennal rig base as they look a bit bent inwards but this is only nitpicking on my part(NO IM NOT TRYING TO GET MY OWN BACK AT YOU)

Not to debate but just a note Dottore, in paper printing [CMYK] we already have a specific Black [we call it K] but when you print it on paper it comes grainy, so to add a more dramatic rich Black we just add 80% cyan [which is from where blue comes] ... this is just to give you an idea of the colour theory ... besides if you mix the C [Cyan], M [Magenta] and Y [Yellow] 100% of each alltogether you get a muddy black colour ...

On another note black in textiles tend to fade to a greenish grey hue, instead of the logical greywhite hue we have in our mind, paint is made of pigments which are minerals or synthetics, not ray of lights, so they are not that pure ...